Seriously, does anyone have any ideas on this? What legitimate reason would there be to hold back on videos like this?
I am speculating that its just incompetent gov wanting people to move along their attention to something else. Not one person was fired in our gov after 3,000 people were murdered. Lets keep our borders open and see if we can top 3k the next time it happens, no?
My idea is that the City of New York asserted its copyright on the video. The video caption from the YouTube link says:
WTC Attack September 11, 2001 from New York Police HelicopterVideo obtained by FOIA to NIST by an anonymous person who directed it be sent to Cryptome. Excerpt of the NIST letter.
Quote: These electronic files image were provided to NIST by the New York Police Department. The City of New York has provided NIST with the following notice:
"Please take notice that the City of New York ("City") has asserted that the contents of the enclosed DVD-ROM is protected under tbe Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. sections 101 et seq. Tbe City expressly reserves its rights in these materials, and requires that you obtain the City's permission prior to any reproduction, modification, adaptation, recompilation, or other derivative use of each DVD-ROM or portion thereof, including any still image extracted or derived therefrom, and that the City's permission be obtained prior to the commercial distribution of any video footage and of still or moving images extracted or derived therefrom in any medium, by sale, rental, lease, lending or other means. The City requires that the instant notice accompany any moving or still images that you disseminate for any reason, including dissemination that complies with the fair use authorized by section 107 of the Copyright Act, and requires that each recipient of these materials comply with the instant Notice. Moreover, the City requires that a summary statement of its copyright be embedded in any moving or still images extracted from the enclosed DVD-ROM that are broadcast in any medium for any purpose. This summary statement shall read as follows: "Copyright (c) NYPD." Please write to the New York City Police Department, Legal Bureau, 1 Police Plaza, Room 1406, New York, N. Y. 10038, for information about obtaining an appropriate license." Unquote
The video has been uploaded as provided by NIST without modification. Original in VOB format, 700MB.
A related collection of 153 still photos from another NYPD helicopter:
http://cryptome.org/0001/wtc-nist-gjs/wtc-nist-gjs.zip (64MB)
“Not one person was fired in our gov after 3,000 people were murdered.”
O.K., out of curiosity, I’ll take the bait: Who, exactly, in your opinion, should have been fired?